Yes, shazaam, the repotting went very well. I repotted it without completely bare rooting it. I just took it out of the pot an gave it a good blasting with the hose to knock off most of the potting medium (which, surprisingly, seem to be pretty good quality) and repotted. A few leaves were forming so I decided against rooting pruning this go round, knowing from past experience the stress and recovery period, so I will likely do it next year. The few figs (about 7 of them) are still on the tree and we are getting more leaves so we will see if they hang on and ripen or drop. Love this time of year watching everything in my garden wake up and looking forward to a summer full of beautiful blooms and sweet delicious figs :). Thanks again and let me know what becomes of your breba crop too!

While accumulating a list of closed/small/honey/rosin eye figs, I kept a list of cold hardy too (I apologize in not keeping a reference to whomever compiled the majority of this list originally): Cold Hardy Figs Brown Turkey (Texas Everbearing) Blue Celeste (all Celeste really) Brunswick Hardy Chicago Violet De Bordeaux (Negronne) medium eye, down to zone 5 Desert King Italian Honey (Lattarula) Peter's Honey Osborne Prolific (Neverella) Excel Texas Blue Giant Golden Celeste Black Mission [there are others but they require either hot summers or a summer greenhouse to sweeten] Alma - late ripening, honey fig, ugly fig, super flavor [female Allison X male Hamma Caprifig] Atreano Bayenfeige Violetta Biancheta Brogiotto Nero (Briogiotto Fiorentino) Capelas Dauphine Genovese Nero Hollier Isfahan LSU Purple Mademoiselle de deux Saisons Malta (Sugar Fig) Northland (Nordland Bergfeige) Paradiso Bianco Portuguese East Mountain Ronde de Bordeaux Sal's (Corleone) Skardu Dark Stela (honey fig) (aka Stella) Sultane Tena (Bifere) Ventura

Hi all, Just a list of most all the locations mentioned in this link and a few others I added all in one post hope this is helpful. Bay Flora http://www.bayflora.com/figtrees.html Burnt Ridge http://www.burntridgenursery.com/fruitingPlants/index_product.asp?dept=19&parent=7 Edible Landscaping http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/plants.php Encanto Farms http://encantofarms.com/2010available.html Fig Trees net http://www.figtrees.net/ Grimo Nut http://www.grimonut.com/catalog.php?catID=71 Itilian Figtrees http://www.italianfigtrees.com/blog/ Just Fruit and Exotics http://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/Figs.htm Land of Enfigment http://landofenfigment.com/index.html Michals Fig Trees http://www.figtrees.ca/varieties.html Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12871 Petals from the past http://petalsfromthepast.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=31_38 Raintree http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/producttype.cfm?producttype=FIGS Rolling River http://www.rollingrivernursery.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=20&Itemid=26&vmcchk=1&Itemid=26 Trees of Antiquity http://www.treesofantiquity.com/index.php?main_page=shopping_cart&sort=20a&page=1 Trees of Joy http://www.treesofjoy.com/ Wills Orchards http://www.willisorchards.com/category/Fig%20Trees

My "Nero Caesar" cultivar is now about 5 years old. The question about its hardiness has been answered. As the root system matured, the fig became hardier, which has been the case with several of my less hardy figs such as Black Jack (a dwarf variant of California Brown Turkey or San Peiro). The "Nero Caesar" is now a nice-looking little bush pruned to 7 trunks. The figs have improved in size as it has gotten older. They don't appear much smaller than a regular Celeste. There's not really much difference in my other Celeste variants (a couple of which are heirloom figs of Central Texas whose pedigrees date back many years - one found in south Austin, Texas and another in a Lutheran churchyard in Giddings, Texas.) Celeste, Eastern Brown Turkey and Magnolia (Brunswick) are, in my experience, the most common heirloom figs in Alabama or Texas. Leon's advice regarding obtaining rooted plants or cuttings from a reputable collector still holds true. On the other hand, if you are confident in identifying cultivars, you can sometimes pick up nice-sized figs at a bargain at Home Depot, Lowe's, or other chains. If the fig is labeled and fruiting and the fruit matches the known characteristics of the cultivar, then you can take a chance on it. Last year, I picked up a 5-gal. Eastern Brown Turkey and a Kadota for about $5.00 - $10.00 apiece. I only have about 6 or 7 Kadotas under various names (Banana, Binella, White Texas Everbearing, etc.), so, as a compulsive collector, it was absolutely necessary to acquire the fig!